The world’s grown too complex for journalists to cover using only literary skills. A generation ago, forward-thinking journalists developed computer-assisted reporting techniques, uncovering stories from public databases, including crime reports, school test scores and census data.
Unfortunately, CARR has remained a specialty within journalism, rather than a core skill. Part of this can be attributed to journalists’ collective hostility toward math and science. I’ve been training journalists in basic math for a decade, and in my experience, it is far easier to teach someone with high math aptitude how to report and write a journalism story than it is to teach a typical journalist math.
Why not, then, try to recruit more math-savvy students into journalism? —Robert Niles —What’s in the works for the next 12 months at OJR? (Online Journalism Review)
What's in the works for the next 12 months at OJR?
Yesterday my stack of unmarked assignments was about 120, so this is not bad.
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Good point.